Reparations Database
This database brings together reparations case law and legislation from the case study countries, as well as international jurisprudence, peace agreements and recommendations on reparations in truth commission reports from over 80 countries and more than 400 sources.
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2004 Peru Law Nº28413 that regulates absence due to Disappearance [Spanish]
By Congress of Peru
2004 Peru Law N° 28223 on Internal Displacement [Spanish]
By Congress of Peru
2016 Switzerland Federal Act on Compulsory Social Measures and Placements prior to 1981 (English – Unofficial translation)
By The Federal Assembly of the Swiss Confederation
1956 West German Federal Indemnification Law (Bundesentschädigungsgesetz – BEG) [German]
By Government of West Germany
1991 Czechoslovakia Act No. 92/1991 on on the conditions for the transfer of State property to other subjects [English – Unofficial translation]
By The Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Republic
2004 Albania Law No. 9235 on restitution and compensation of property [English]
By The Assembly of Republic of Albania
1990 Law On Land Reform in the Rural Areas [English – Unofficial translation]
By Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia
1991 Moldova Law Nr. 459-XII on Property [Romanian]
By President of Moldova
1999 Kyrgyzstan Land Code [English]
By Legislative Assembly
1992 Czechoslovakia Act on the regulation of property relations and settlement of property claims in cooperatives (with amendments) [Czech]
By Federal Assembly of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic
1992 Bulgaria Transformation and Privatisation of State-Owned and Municipal Enterprises Act w amendments
By National Assembly of Bulgaria